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In spite of the massive amount of work that has been placed into making carbon nanotubes a standard material for our civilization, creating flexible arrays using the nanostructures has proven to be extremely difficult until now. The structures have the ability to innovate, among other things, the display control circ... |
23 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the amount of work that has gone into determining the characteristics of silicon nanowires has increased considerably, mostly because they represent the future of the electronics industry, right next to their carbon nanotube cousins. In their search for ever-smaller technologies, manufacturer... |
12 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a number of groundbreaking discoveries have been made that could easily change the ways in which we look at producing electronics. Advancements have been registered on all fronts, including in nanotechnology (smaller wires), polymers (organic electronics), and, last but not least, materials. ... |
4 November 2009
08:21 GMT |
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For a very long time, scientists have dreamed about combining electronics with the human body, and now it would appear that they have succeeded. A group of experts managed to create a type of circuit that essentially dissolved into the human body. The way they accomplished that was by combining thin, flexible silicon... |
3 November 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Interactive walls are not something entirely new. Attempts at producing aesthetically pleasing designs in an electronic fashion are fairly old, but most of the previous approaches to accomplishing this rely on very power-hungry sensors and projectors. This makes the wallpapers an unfeasible alternative to their paper... |
29 October 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Nanopillars are extremely small filaments of material, with sizes of just a few billionths of a millimeter. Growing them on polymer substrates has proven to be a very daunting task over the past decade, because science teams couldn't figure out how to individually separate them, and make them “grow” ... |
23 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that fit on an average microprocessor will double in size every couple of years, and that the trend will at one point reach a limit that will no longer allow it to continue. Engineers are painfully aware of the fact that semiconductors such as silicon will eventu... |
17 October 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Scientists from the Arizona State University (ASU) have recently managed to bring a significant contribution to creating future electronic devices, when they have made a new type of diode, barely the size of a molecule. The incredibly small device could be used in chips and processors in the near future, alongside ot... |
13 October 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Graphene is a carbon compound featuring some peculiar physical and chemical properties, which was discovered just five years ago. Since then, it has been investigated extensively, as experts hope to manufacture it for electronics production one day. Recently, a team of experts from Italy, the United States, and the U... |
12 October 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Waveforms are concepts very well known to those working with electricity, or in music production, but for different reasons. They are graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time, and they are extremely useful in setting the groundwork for new types of circuits and other electronic devices. Now, sci... |
7 October 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Manipulating DNA strands individually and precisely is one of the most sought-after technologies in science today, simply because this would open up tremendous, new research possibilities in fields ranging from medicine to computing. In the latter, circuits made from nanomaterials combined with DNA could lead to amaz... |
16 September 2009
22:01 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the electronic circuits that will make up the appliances of the future will be a long way away from the equipment we see today. New materials, new technologies, a combination of organic and inorganic molecules, and a higher degree of miniaturization will change the aspect of circuit boards forever. Effor... |
16 September 2009
10:36 GMT |
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Tired of typing endlessly on your computer keyboard, or sick of having to always cram your fingers on your smartphone's small screen? Then you may be happy to hear that neuroscientists from the Canton, New York-based Norconnect Inc., the Duke University, and the St. Lawrence University had you in mind when they ... |
29 August 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Microprocessor architects have hoped for a long time that a day will come when molecule-sized electronic components will become readily available and fit for implementation in next-gen devices. Scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently developed a new, small-scale “s... |
28 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the innovations that will make the computers and electronics of tomorrow run faster and better will consist of printed circuits. Experts have already devised organic circuits that are cheap, efficient and printable, but the trouble is that, unlike their inorganic counterparts, they require two mat... |
24 August 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UI) have recently developed a new kind of very tiny, inorganic, bright, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which they hope to be able to use in practical applications such as thin and foldable video screens. Wall-sized displays could also become possible with ... |
21 August 2009
03:42 GMT |
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When stickers, for instance, are taped to windows or doors, they eventually form blisters. Sunlight hitting them directly also deforms and distorts their colors, until they eventually fall off. While strolling through the corridors of the Edgerton Center, in Building 4 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MI... |
18 August 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFET) are among the latest developments of the relatively new plastic micro-electronics technology. These structures are constructed on organic materials, and also feature electronic components. Creating this type of transistors in a way that is both cost-effective... |
12 August 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Since it was first discovered in 2004, graphene has proven to be one of the most promising new materials in the world, having the potential to be used for new generations of semiconductors and other components of innovative electronic equipment. Now, a group of research institutions has managed to create interconnect... |
11 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Future generations of integrated circuit interconnects may no longer be made out of copper, if a new technology devised at the Georgia Institute of Technology catches on. Experts have designed a new way of binding the elements inside these circuits, using graphene, thin layers of graphite, only one atom thick. The ma... |
5 June 2009
06:26 GMT |
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The “dielectric confinement effect,” first proposed in 1979 by scientist L. V. Keldysh, has finally been confirmed with measurements conducted by a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), working together with colleagues from the Worcester Polytechnic Instit... |
6 May 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Researchers at a Japanese robotics lab have recently showcased an innovation that has taken the science community's breath away. They have managed to create a chemical gel that is able to move on a surface in very much the same way a caterpillar does on a leaf. In the future, the gel could aid in the creation of... |
28 April 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Many science teams around the globe have worked on creating a viable and portable electromagnetic bomb (e-bomb) over the past few years, one that could easily take out all the electronic systems in a given area, leaving the target dead in the water. However, despite their best efforts, the smallest such devices const... |
23 April 2009
09:18 GMT |
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Physicists working on ways of building more and more integrated circuits on smaller electronic devices are aware of some simple and undeniable truths, such as that, below a certain point of miniaturization, the forces that are negligible in large-scale electronics have become so strong that they influence the outcome... |
21 March 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Scientist have known for a long time that atoms placed in various specific conformations have the potential to make electrons around them dance in a “quantum” way, but have until now failed to create such an alignment. But the February 13th edition of the journal Science hosts a new scientific study that ... |
19 February 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Duke University researchers have managed to modify an existing method of growing very long, straight and aligned carbon nanotubes, in that they can now obtain near-perfect samples of carbon semiconductors, at the billionth-of-a-millimeter scale. This means that future electronic devices will more likely not feature o... |
22 January 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Sony isn't very happy around this time of the year, as its PlayStation 3 console doesn’t seem to register the sales its executives would want, but faith is not lost. As we've reported on several occasions, the Japanese company is still very confident in its PS3 and will continue to back it up by any m... |
22 December 2008
02:48 GMT |
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Panasonic, formerly known as Matsushita Electric, is now reported to be closer to its goal of acquiring Sanyo Electric, a move that will enable the company to become Japan's second largest manufacturer of electronics. Goldman Sachs is said to have agreed to sell all of its holdings, which account for a 29 perce... |
18 December 2008
07:09 GMT |
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For the inaugural Microsoft Asia High Tech Industry Summit, the Redmond company indicated that Asian companies need to focus on three key areas of growth. The first Asia High Tech Industry Summit catalyzed by Microsoft is designed to generate dialog between the players of the continent's high-tech and electronic... |
6 November 2008
05:14 GMT |
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The car batteries that we rely on today may be soon "driven" to extinction by recent discoveries. Engineers' old engine power-delivery problem has now been solved by means of the new supercapacitor. Post-doctoral researcher Jiyoung Oh together with research scientist Mikhail Kozlov from the NanoTech Instit... |
22 September 2008
04:59 GMT |
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I'm certain that most of the people reading this article have noticed at some point in time that some of the cables connecting the peripherals to a personal computer have some strange looking 'bumps' (see lower image). If you did, then you might have also asked yourselves what those things are and what... |
29 July 2008
08:43 GMT |
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How can one bond two DNA strands without breaking them? Well, by using a micro-sized DNA sewing machine of course! An article published in the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Lab on a Chip has recently detailed an invention created by Japanese scientists which allows researchers to bond and manipulate individual D... |
14 July 2008
05:28 GMT |
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A huge colony of ants is reportedly chewing its way to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, destroying computer networks and even cars. The invasion may pose a security risk for the space center, which relies on electronics for its research, and the government agency has already called for exterminator suppor... |
16 May 2008
03:07 GMT |
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Electromagnetic coils, most commonly known as inductors, are amongst the simplest electric and electronic components. They basically consist of a simple metal electrically insulated wire looped into a cylindrical, toroidal or even disk-like shape, with the role of providing inductance in an electric circuit. Inductan... |
30 April 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Oscillators are extremely important for both electronic and mechanical devices. Quartz watches, computers, radios, clocks would be rendered inoperable without the help of oscillators. The basic idea is that oscillators are required to provide with a constant clock at a given moment. The clock of an oscillator is meas... |
12 April 2008
04:50 GMT |
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In a press release published yesterday, the company MTI Micro revealed that it would begin mass production of methanol fuel cells of handheld and portable electronic devices somewhere this year, so that by the beginning of 2009 they would become available for purchase. The company plans to replace all lithium ion bat... |
8 April 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Capacitors are similar in a way to batteries, but have different construction and characteristics. They store electric energy and release it when necessary; but unlike batteries, capacitors can be charged and discharged with a much higher frequency and may experience multiple charge-discharge cycles during operation.... |
4 April 2008
09:14 GMT |
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You have a relatively simple task. Pulling off a piece of wallpaper glued onto a wall with the help of adhesive. Instinct tells us that it should pull off easily, in a single piece, however reality is very different. You should consider yourself lucky if you achieve this task without tearing off the wallpaper in sev... |
31 March 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The device used in order to generate the pure spin current, produced at the Naval Research Laboratory, modulates and electrically detects pure spin in silicon semiconductors, mostly used in electronic devices. A silicon n-type layer enables the generation of a spin current, with the help of magnetic contacts placed o... |
6 December 2007
10:07 GMT |
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Here's a new one! While every single giant fish in the electronic industry is doing its best to fight against the monster pollution we're living in nowadays, the Americans are actually doing their best to do even more damage as usual, by shipping huge amounts of electronic waste overseas. They're clean... |
19 November 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Sixty years ago, at the Bell Laboratories, two scientists started a series of experiments which would result in the invention of the first working semiconductor transistor. The research was mainly triggered by the necessity of the replacement of the bulky vacuum electron tubes, which were used at the time, as element... |
17 November 2007
07:13 GMT |
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Here's a Chinese portable media player, which apparently doesn't copy any hot device of the same kind. The PF500 PMP from Sysbay International is trying harder to prove that there is even more room for class in the electronics industry.In this regard, the company has come out with a design line, which kind ... |
30 October 2007
09:31 GMT |
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Waste management began as a problem for the computer industry a few years ago and since then, big names representing powerful and well established companies decided to start their own electronic waste gathering programs in order to diminish the industry's environmental footprint.As this trend continues and grows... |
21 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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A research team from the German Fraunhofer Institute developed an electronic system that is capable of working with no apparent power source apart from the energy generated by the human body. This kind of power generating system could have a lot of applications in the mobile computing industry alone, where battery li... |
20 August 2007
11:34 GMT |
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Who said technology (especially electronics) has to come packed in silicon-based boards and rare alloys? Well, a guy with an obvious sweet tooth decided to demonstrate that one could designe electronic circuits using only the "raw" materials found in a grocery store. Being two of the most favorite things in the world... |
14 July 2007
05:35 GMT |
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They're not really functioning cybernetic organisms, but they may be a new step towards taking this concept from the sci-fi productions and bringing it to the real world. A new generation of electronics was now created by combining semiconductors with biological viruses, in what could be considered an environmen... |
14 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic or even organic materials.A new generation of flexible circuit connectors could produce a new class of electronic ap... |
11 July 2007
11:11 GMT |
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The electronics industry is involved in a continuous race to make today's TV screens and cell phones more efficient, cheaper and of a higher quality. LCDs are one of the most popular types of commercially available displays, but a newcomer is about to challenge their position.Weijia Wen and colleagues at the Ho... |
6 July 2007
05:52 GMT |
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The problem of transporting electricity throughout large distances comes from the fact that conducting wires can break, snap in the wind, or when a tree falls on them, so every major storm knocks out most of the power grid, isolating important human communities.Trying to solve this problem, a team of students at MIT... |
9 June 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper. The digital pen uses this pattern to store the handwriting and upload it to a computer.... |
5 June 2007
04:27 GMT |
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